Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After his retirement, ten months ago, Winant went back to his house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...
...Churchill, who for all his age and greatness has never outgrown the small-boy look, stared hard at Cripps who, even in his youth, had the thin lips, the stern but not unkindly eye of the typical governess. And there was a further likeness: Cripps has always had the deep conviction of all good governesses that they know best...
...have considered (and discarded) some elaborate disposal schemes. One was to seal the radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the cylinders might break open and discharge their still radioactive atoms. Another proposal: bury the atoms deep in abandoned caves. But they might be dissolved by underground water, flow out and spread the atoms as rain...
...Films; United Palestine Appeal) is a 27-minute documentary story of a hard, admirable piece of pioneering: the washing of salt from a few hundred acres of the Dead Sea desert, and the reclamation of the soil. It is crudely made, but at its best moments its crudity and deep emotion seem more proper to each other than polish could...
...they really sought a reign over this period of trial and tears; the role of critic is safer and more remunerative in the final showing. They were saved from any possibility of gaining power, though, since Prime Minister Attlee considered election returns an expression of temporary dissatisfaction rather than deep-rooted censure of socialist planning, and nationalization of industry will continue at least till the 1950 regular election...